Quotes About Redemption

I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”

“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ëA sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ëNow let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWoe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ëOur transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?í

But if I tell the wicked man, ëYou will surely die,í and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.

Then they will say, ëThis land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.í

Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëO My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.